We Need A Massive Remote-Worker Hiring Spree In The American Heartland

Fast Company ^ | July 17, 2017 | Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork

[jeffc]

Some say more urban professionals from the coasts should move out to the middle of the country.

Oh, God, please no!

And not everyone, especially us in rural areas, do not have high speed internet. My PC is connected to my Verizon phone tether to get to the internet right now. AT&T is the only broadband ISP here, and they're "out of bandwidth" ('course it's the same 6 Mb they've offered for the last 15 years!).

[TADSLOS]

Many business leaders I’ve spoken to have been thinking harder lately about how to reverse political, cultural, and socioeconomic polarization.

How about thinking and working harder for their business bottom line instead of being social workers?

[Campion]

You can, but the problems with offshoring don’t only stem from remote communications. You also have to deal with cultural differences, language differences, and timezone differences. Offshore employees are also typically contractors, with no particular long-stake in the survival or profitability of their contract employer.

[central_va]

We need at least cable EVERYWHERE.

[meyer]

The right wing off shored factories and wealth creation out of rural America to China. Now they do not want to subsidized fiber for the "displaced".

The Right Wing did that? No, the Left Wing chased a good deal of manufacturing out of this country through the plethora of regulations and taxes that all but choked manufacturing out of this country. From the EPA to OSHA to EEOC, to the rest of the alphabet soup agencies, dot gov has continually destroyed our ability to compete on the world market.

Absent government intrusion, we would easily compete in a world market, and it wouldn't take any subsidies to do so.

We taxpayers are sick of paying for other peoples' stuff. You want fiber, buy fiber.

[ConservativeMind]

Get off your your royal butt and help Trump by getting Congress to do what they are constitutionally responsible to do.

It’s not on Trump, at this point.

[cba123]

Sorry but I think it is on Trump at the moment.

There are two (big) issues, which both are the reasons I supported the guy for President.

One is global trade. The other is the border and the wall.

I like Trump, and I have supported the guy for a long time. But he needs to move on these two major issues.

I think he will. I’m just saying, thus far, I haven’t seen that yet.

[central_va]

BS. US factories were off shored to exploit dirt cheap labor and import the goods back in duty free. It was a get rich scheme and it work for the stockholder but no one else.

The regulation tax complaint is a ruse and fig leaf.

[meyer]

BS. US factories were off shored to exploit dirt cheap labor and import the goods back in duty free. It was a get rich scheme and it work for the stockholder but no one else.

Maybe because US Unions priced themselves out of work by trying to monopolize the workforce? The closed shop union all but destroyed the US Automakers through the late 60s, 70s, and 80s as they craved higher and higher wages, while doing less and less work. I was in a Union for 11 years - I know exactly what goes on.

[central_va]

Union workers are no longer a factor in manufacturing. <10% are unionized so 90% of US durable goods are made by non union workers. Get a new meme.